1985 Press Photo Bill West, Scholarly Ex-Spy In Reston, Virginia Home

West sold his collection of 10,000 volumes of Soviet literature to Emory University. West worked for the Counter Intelligence Corps during World War II and the Korean War and then for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1955 until his retirement in 1977. He helped the CIA obtain underground Soviet literature through journalists, students and tourists and then tried channel the books back to intellectuals in the Soviet Union without access to the work.
Photo measures 4.75 x 8.